The creation of the world beginning to be distant, God provided a sing… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

The creation of the world beginning to be distant, God provided a single contemporary historian, and appointed a whole people as guardians of this book, in order that this history might be the most authentic in the world, and that all men might thereby learn a fact so necessary to know, and which could only be known through that means.

Place: SECTION IX · ¶1861
License: Public domain · Source
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